What is the progressive developmental model of public health that Livingston is talking about?  How has it fostered carcinogenic visibility and invisibility in Africa and how has it worked to obscure biological and social complexities on the ground?

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Livingston book (Improvising Medicine) pp. ix-92 (Preface through Interlude)

“Yet their cancers and the carcinogenic relationships that underpin them remain mostly obscured, due to the progressive developmental model that has long guided African public health, regardless of biological and social complexities on the ground. This model facilitates carcinogenesis, even as it marginalizes the needs of the hundreds of thousands of cancer patients.” P. 51

What is the progressive developmental model of public health that Livingston is talking about?  How has it fostered carcinogenic visibility and invisibility in Africa and how has it worked to obscure biological and social complexities on the ground?

 

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